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A Mirror of England
The collected poems of Edward Thomas
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"When Edward Thomas was killed in Flanders, a mirror of England was shattered of so pure and true a crystal that a clearer and tenderer reflection of it
can be found no other where than in these poems..."
- Walter de la Mare
- Adlestrop - Yes, I remember Adlestrop -...
- After Rain - The rain of a night and a day and a night...
- After You Speak - After you speak...
- Ambition - Unless it was that day I never knew...
- And You, Helen - And you, Helen, what should I give you?...
- April - The sweetest thing, I thought...
- The Ash Grove - Half of the grove stood dead, and those that yet lived made...
- Aspens - All day and all night, save winter, every weather,...
- As the Clouds that are so Light - As the clouds that are so light,...
- The Barn - They should never have built a barn there, at all -...
- The Barn and the Down - It stood in the sunset sky...
- Beauty - What does it mean? Tired, angry, and ill at ease,...
- Birds' Nests - The summer nests uncovered by autumn wind,...
- The Bridge - I have come a long way to-day:...
- Bright Clouds - Bright clouds of may...
- The Brook - Seated once by a brook, watching a child...
- But These Things Also - But these things also are Spring's -...
- A Cat - She had a name among the children;...
- Celandine - Thinking of her had saddened me at first,...
- The Chalk-Pit - 'Is this the road that climbs above and bends...
- The Cherry Trees - The cherry trees bend over and are shedding,...
- The Child in the Orchard - 'He rolls in the orchard: he is stained with moss...
- The Child on the Cliffs - Mother, the root of this little yellow flower...
- Cock-Crow - Out of the wood of thoughts that grows by night...
- The Combe - The Combe was ever dark, ancient and dark....
- The Cuckoo - That's the cuckoo, you say. I cannot hear it....
- The Dark Forest - Dark is the forest and deep, and overhead;...
- Digging - What matter makes my spade for tears or mirth,...
- Digging - To-day I think/Only with scents...
- A Dream - Over known fields with an old friend in dream...
- Early One Morning - Early one morning in May I set out,...
- Fifty Faggots - There they stand, on their ends, the fifty faggots...
- First Known when Lost - I never had noticed it until...
- For These - An acre of land between the shore and the hills,...
- The Gallows - There was a weasel lived in the sun...
- A Gentleman - 'He has robbed two clubs. The judge at Salisbury...
- The Glory - The glory of the beauty of the morning, -...
- Gone, Gone Again - Gone, gone again,/May, June, July,...
- Good-Night - The skylarks are far behind that sang over the down;...
- The Green Roads - The green roads that end in the forest...
- The Gypsy - A fortnight before Christmas Gypsies were everywhere:...
- Haymaking - After night's thunder far away had rolled...
- Health - Four miles at a leap, over the dark hollow land,...
- Head and Bottle - The downs will lose the sun, white alyssum...
- The Hollow Wood - Out in the sun the goldfinch flits...
- Home - Not the end: but there's nothing more....
- 'Home' - Fair was the morning, fair our tempers, and...
- Home - Often I had gone this way before...
- House and Man - One hour: as dim he and his house now look...
- How at Once - How at once should I know,...
- The Huxter - He has a hump like an ape on his back;...
- Interval - Gone the wild day:...
- If I Should Ever by Chance - If I should ever by chance grow rich...
- If I were to Own - If I were to own this countryside...
- In Memoriam (Easter, 1915) - The flowers left thick at nightfall in the wood...
- It Rains - It rains, and nothing stirs within the fence....
- It Was Upon - It was upon a July evening....
- I Never Saw that Land Before - I Never Saw that Land Before,...
- I Built Myself a House of Glass - I Built Myself a House of Glass:...
- July - Naught moves but clouds, and in the glassy lake...
- The Lane - Some day, I think, there will be people enough...
- Liberty - The last light has gone out of the world, except...
- Lights Out - I have come to the borders of sleep,...
- Like the touch of rain - Like the touch of rain she was....
- Lob - At hawthorn-time in Wiltshire travelling...
- The Lofty Sky - To-day I want the sky,...
- The Long Small Room - The long small room that showed willows in the west...
- Lovers - The two men in the road were taken aback....
To the best of our knowledge, Edward Thomas's poetry is ex-copyright in the United Kingdom. In so far as any rights can be established in this on-line collection, they are reserved by The Richmond Review.
Local Links: About Edward Thomas
Global Links: An Internet History of WW1 | Edward Thomas Fellowship - Edward Thomas appreciation page
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